Current mood:	sleepy
Entry tags:	debian, linux, me, slackintosh, slackware

man whois
WHOIS(1) Debian GNU/Linux WHOIS(1)
ok, this is gross. especially when read on a Slackware 12.0 ;-)

are you surprised?

don't be upset, most of Linux distributions run Marco D'Itri version of whois which has been mainly built on Debian, so the whois.1 man page reflect this.
Ok, Debian's own orig.tar.gz and diff.gz exist on purpose but sometimes developers are just too proud of their own choices about distibutions holy war :D

By the way, even Slackware "bin" package contains some Debian love: this package mainly consist of debianutils and some other programs like fbset, banners and todos/fromdos (and many many more in 11.0, before 12.0 splits). In this case we've a significant difference, though. The run-parts Debian c program has been swapped out in favor of a faster bash script written by Volkerding himself, which I modify for Slackintosh in order to allow the --run-parts option, required for pbbuttonsd daemon.